Oh, busy-busy here! I am overwhelmed with nesting instincts and have cleaned our entire house and car from top to bottom, baseboards, moldings, spiderwebs, etc. Spring babies are such an experience since these are motivations I probably would have been having anyway for this time of year but coupled with pregnancy turn me into a cleaning super woman I have never met before. Silly, just silly.
I had been wanting to make one of
Meg's Recycled Bathmats for a while now. So the other night I burned the midnight (sewing machine) oil and whipped one of these up.
Armed with my super *ahem* crappy sewing machine, vintage fabric from my stash, an old towel and a tile from our bathroom wall I set to work. Meg cut her squares tiny, 2 1/2", but I knew myself and my machine (both of which can not sew in a straight line) better than that. So I found an extra tile from our bathroom wall which measured 4" square and used that to cut out my squares hoping to increase my chances that things would line up and not be so incredibly wonky. It pretty much worked out and I am quite happy with the results.
I am really into grellow or gray and yellow together. As you can see our bathroom has varying gray tiles and while I like the simplicity I Iove how yellow just makes it all pop out. For practical reasons, because I had one on hand, I used a light gray towel for the back and while I'll share a picture here for you let's just not discuss how truly awful my sewing is. I "quilted" the top and towel together by stitching in the ditches of each square. Luckily this side is only up when in use and then the mat goes right back to it's much more lovely side to dry on the tub.
I really enjoyed this project and already have plans to make another. Thanks Meg for sharing your great tutorial!
In other news, my dad is up here visiting for a few days and to help us with our next really big project. He's a retired architect and he's helping us draw up blueprints for a coop that will house 2,000 chickens! That's right, 2,000, and that's just to start. It's a very long story for another time but Greg and I have decided to start our own organic egg farm on our land here in VT. It is both extremely exciting and extremely terrifying at the same time. Needless to say we have been busy with planning, research, grant/loan applications and figuring out if we are capable of running a farm that size. We have big plans to not only raise our hens organically and free range but to incorporate as much green energy and ecologically progressive techniques as possible. The dream is big and lofty and idealistic, some may even call it naive, but it is a dream and if there is one thing that Greg and I have always agreed on in our marriage it's that we must live our dreams. Crisis has unfortunately brought us to this place in the form of job loss but I have to say that we couldn't be happier in many ways. It is so easy allow time to pass and to postpone your ideas while pursuing safer endeavors. When Greg lost his job we realized quickly that we no longer wanted to be reliant on other people, companies, agencies, etc. especially in a job market where there are no longer any guarantees anyway. If we are going to take a risk, it will be our own and Greg and I are no strangers to risk taking :) There have been many in our years together. I have so much to share but it will have to happen as things progress for us.
Of course we are all anticipating our next new little one. My due date is the 24th of this month but I really feel as if this baby will arrive before then. My dad looked at me today and said, "You are ready. You look really ready." and he knows having had 6 babies of his own! I agree but my midwife said it's just that I am pregnant with my third and everything just feels "ready" sooner. Only time will tell. I just can't wait! Hang in there with me, will ya? :)
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